Religious Americans enjoy higher wellbeing

Relationship holds when controlling for key demographics

Published: 02/17/2012 at 5:50 PM

(GALLUP) — An analysis of more than 676,000 Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index interviews conducted in 2011 and 2010 finds that Americans who are the most religious have the highest levels of wellbeing. The statistically significant relationship between religiousness and wellbeing holds up after controlling for numerous demographic variables.